MAGES: Dark Shadows

Chapter 8

Waking up, John found that he wasn't in his bed. Looking around, he noticed that not only him, but the other four were lying on the floor of the main room. Then everything came back to him. The shadow Mages, the battle, the cold black hands wrapping around his neck. He had been knocked out. Although, he was still very confused. Why had Shadow not killed them?

The a voice whispered into his ear.

"In case your wondering, your not dead." John recognised the voice as Shadow's.

"Actually, yes, why am I not dead?" John whispered back.

In front of him he noticed a shadow, the shadow was black of course, but this shadow had red eyes. He changed form and became a human being again. Of course, it was Shadow. He leaned closer to John.

"Why kill you one by one when I can kill you all, at the same time?" He sniggered.

"Why kill you now when I can do it as your awake?" Shadow's eyes narrowed.

"What I'm trying to say here is that there's no need to be killing you... yet!" The other dark Mages appeared and laughed with him.

All except for Adam.

"You see... I want you death to be like torture! Why have a quick death... When it's so much fun to have a pain filled, torturous death? Hee hee hee!"

Shadow noticed Adam for the first time. He turned to Adam and laughed.

"Don't want to join in?" Sniggered Shadow, "then you can be the one who kills that one! We'll kill all his friends... Make him feel SAD! Then we torture him!" Adam stared in horror at Shadow.

"Go on!" Adam wandered up to stand in front of Cooper. He held out a shadow orb in his hand.

"Shadow," Adam turned around, "this o-orb, I-it goes w-with your black heart, so you can have it!" Adam threw the orb at Shadow, it hit him in the chest.

Adam threw another one that hit Shadow in the head. And then another one. All this courage from Adam gave John the strength he needed to get up and help. John ripped a rope off of one of the banners on the wall. He threw one end to Adam and held the other end.

When the shadow Mages ran towards them, they lowered the ropes to knee level. The shadow Mages tripped over the rope and fell face first onto the ground. John and Adam ran over to the balcony and stood on it. When the shadow Mages got up they ran over towards the balcony. John and Adam slammed the door on the shadow Mages faces. When they opened the door they found that they had knocked them unconscious.

John and Adam begun to hurl them over the balcony into the river. As they did this, John noticed some blood on his arm. He pulled his sleeve up to find that he had been cut. The cut begun to sting so John decided to ignore it. As they hurled the last shadow Mage into the river, John turned to Adam.

"Thank you for everything."

"John, I'm sorry about that." Adam turned back to face John.

"No problem!" John laughed.

Jumping up onto the fence of the balcony, John got into a dive position. Adam grabbed John's leg.

"John, what are you doing?" John turned his head and smiled.

"There's one thing I have to take care of!" John dived into the river.

As he climbed onto the bank he found the dark Mages coughing up water a few metres away. John wandered over to Shadow.

"I *cough* hate *cough* you." He spluttered.

John watched Shadow stand up to face him.

"Why did you even bother coming down here?"

John smiled slightly.

"I came to give you something," John brought his sword up and slightly cut Shadow's other cheek.

"Now your face is symmetrical." John elbowed Shadow in the chest and threw him into the river.

He watched as his old enemy drift down the river. John turned to Night and Black. The other Dark Mages ran for their lives to get away.

The battle had been won!